Iran announced Thursday the closure of a Tehran-based French research institute in protest against cartoons of the Islamic republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. “The ministry is ending the activities of the French Institute for Research in Iran as a first step,” the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement, a day after Tehran had […]
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York Times to cease political cartoons after anti-Semitism row
The New York Times has announced it will no longer include daily political cartoons in its international edition, weeks after apologising for publishing a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deemed anti-Semitic. The cartoon, published in April, depicted Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind Donald […]
Cuphead Switch game is visually impressive
When the Switch version of Cuphead was announced in a recent Nintendo Direct it was done so with thanks to, ‘our friends at Microsoft’. Not since Mario and Sonic cohabitated in the same game has there been such an unprecedented entente between former rivals. If the rumours are true then the relationship is set to […]
Pakistan to take up blasphemous caricatures issue at UNGA meeting
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will take up the issue of sacrilegious caricatures competition in Holland at the United Nations General Assembly ‘s annual meeting scheduled to be held next month in New York, said Foreign Office spokesman Dr. Faisal. Religious parties in Pakistan have taken to roads to protest against the blasphemous caricatures competition announced by an Anti-Islam […]